Items from my political notebook as the most important election in decades draws closer:

•If you want to know what type of man John McCain really is then all you have to do is look at a news clip from a recent campaign rally.

McCain was listening to the concerns of a supporter when the Republican nominee declared enough is enough. A woman in attendance was carrying on about how she was afraid of Obama being elected president. Fair enough.

She continued, however, to go right over the edge saying things which were simply not true and declared that Obama was an “Arab.”

At this point, McCain shook his head negatively, took the microphone back and said, “No, ma’am.”

McCain said while he disagrees with the Democratic nominee on issues, Obama is a good man. McCain deserves credit for drawing a line and stopping the woman from continuing when she was telling an outright falsehood. He could have stood there and smiled and allowed her to continue.

However, McCain is honest. He is, as I have said in this space, a hero. He doesn’t have to drop to that level, even if some of the people who are going to vote for him do. It’s obvious this woman has been brainwashed by too much conservative talk radio and/or FOX News.

This incident only scratches the surface, however. At other McCain rallies in recent days, extremist supporters have been recorded yelling about Obama phrases like “KILL HIM!” and “TRAITOR” and “OFF WITH HIS HEAD!”

Amazing, truly amazing and disturbing.

•Most political observers agreed the second presidential debate recently was not even worth watching. Even the ultra conservative leaning Drudge Report website headline screamed: “BORING” the following day.

One has to wonder what voters’ reaction would be if other candidates were allowed to participate Libertarian candidate Bob Barr continues to be excluded along with independent candidate Ralph Nader and Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin. Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney has also been denied access to the debates.

Until voters demand more, however, we will continue to receive more of the same. I guess if you are having trouble sleeping at night the current debate format is a great way to fade away, no prescription needed.

•On the home front, Democratic candidate Jim Martin is making a strong run against Republican Saxby Chambliss in the race for U.S. Senate.

On paper, it’s easy to see why Martin is doing well. The economy is in the tank, for several weeks drivers had trouble finding gas to put in their cars and our state’s Republican governor bailed out of the country.

Martin is a decorated Vietnam Veteran while Chambliss did not serve in the military. Chambliss has done nothing but been a rubber stamp for the failed policies of President Bush.

The race is there for the taking. All of this is on paper, however. Martin still has one major handicap to overcome. He has the initial “D” by his name on the ballot, as in Democrat.

You see, a majority of Georgia voters have been brainwashed into thinking they can’t vote for one. What a shame.

Yeah, it has everything to do with the 'D' by his name and nothing to do with us being sick of the dumb Martin commercials where all he does is say that Saxby Chamblis is George Bush. Perhaps if Jim Martin got off of the 'failed economic policies of Bush' commercials and told us what his vision is he would be doing better. I've got news for you, politicians need to INSPIRE folks to be elected, not just be 'NOT Bush'. I wish pols in washington and dems around the country would get this point. We want leadership, not someone who is going to be 'NOT republican'. Show us what you're going to do. We elected the democrats into power two years ago and all this congress has done is sit and argue and say 'we're not republicans; it's all the repubs' fault'
I, for one am sick of the partician crap from BOTH sides.

I for one am inspired by anything that is NOT Bush. Chambliss has been an embarrassment to the state. His campaign against Max Cleland has been held up in the nation as one of the most disgusting in history, and if we truly want clean campaigns, people like him should not be rewarded with another term.

You have got to be kidding! McCain is holding himself above all of this racist and hate speech? You come to that conclusion from one incident? What about all of those times people yelled out racial and terrorist threats and he just made a ridiculous face but kept on going without taking control of his racist crowds. The fact that you can depend these actions say a lot about you and this paper since I never see any other opinion on this site except yours. How ridiculous that it is 2008 and people are still spewing this amount of hatred over skin color. I am sure these people are on the front row of their church every Sunday - what hyprocrites! If this country is going to get out of this deep hole that has been created Obama / Biden must be elected on November 4th!

Well, I am not voting based on skin color. I am a white person. My choice is based on who seems the most able to put this country back on the right track. I could care less if the person was pink with purple stripes, as long as the individual could pull us out of the quicksand we are sinking in. Unfortunately the McCain campaign is running the same typical campaign full of lies, smears and hate filled rhetoric that I truly believe this country is sick of. When I listen to an Obama rally I hear inclusiveness, positivity and confidence that all of us, together, can fix this country for all of its citizens.

Mr. Obama is the most Left-Wing,Liberal, Socialist/Marxist Candidate for President in the history of the United States. Even his own party members have admitted that! Joe Biden called him unprepared, and too inexperienced to be President during the early campaign. He has not retracted those remarks. That is what he really thinks! The only reason Biden is the VP Nominee is because Obama couldn't control Hillary Clinton, and Biden knows this is as close to the White House as he will ever get. Do you know that Obama voted against allowing an aborted fetus which survives due to medical negligence access to life-saving medical care??? He said allowing this would go against the original wishes of the mother!!!!
Look it up, Lynne. Learn the truth about this man, before you make the worst voting mistake of your life! Don't be blinded by the Left-Wing media that created him!
John McCain puts America first, before his own political campaign. He is not George Bush!! He supports our troops, while Obama calls them "indiscriminate killers of families and villages, in one breath, and then has the gall to expect their support! Obama will bankrupt our country, while he destroys what's left of our country. Please wake up!
DuWayneR. Anderson
Winder, GA

Ouch! Lynne, that wasn't very nice. I (a white person) do happen to sit on the front pew of my church! I have voted in the past for Alan Keyes (a black man), and I will vote for him again if he runs again. I voted for Huckabee this time around, and I would vote for him again, too.
America's problem is immorality. Most of which is funded by liberal Democrats. And, I don't hate Democrats either--If I lived in D3, I'd vote for Bill Healan!
But, I would never, under any circumstances, vote for Obama.

Saxby Chamblis is going to reap what he sowed by his hate mongering lieing campaign against Max Cleland in his last campaign. McCain will probably carry the state of Georgia, but many republicans are sick of Saxby and his mindless support of George Bush. It was just recently shown by him endorsing the wall street bailout plan. The majority of Georgians did not support it, but Bush wanted it so Saxby voted yes.

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